Schools get better picture of coming report cards

1:08 AM,
Apr. 11, 2013

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Ohio schools took home their first look at a more rigorous report card based on an A-F scale that state officials hope will better pinpoint where schools can improve.

"We are not changing the report card to make school districts look bad or to beat up on them," State Board of Education Vice President Tom Gunlock said.

Under the former report card system, 60 percent of Ohio schools were rated "excellent" or "excellent with distinction" even though 1-in-5 students weren't graduating in four years, and 40 percent of students needed remedial classes in college, said Richard Ross, superintendent ...